Story Gradients

Story Gradients is a generative artwork that creates an abstract visual representation of a story through color variation that tracks the narrative arc across sequential comics pages. Color is used to encode the emotional valence of iconic story archetypes, like Rags to Riches (Rise) or Icarus (Rise-Fall). Using the visual language of comics, a sense of pacing is conveyed through the undulations of panel density across the story. Minters can set the visual tone of their story through fx(params).

Parameters / features (controllable by the minter)

• Display theme: Light or Dark
• Story shape: Fall, Rise, Fall-Rise, Rise-Fall, Fall-Rise-Fall, Rise-Fall-Rise. Controls the emotional value curve, i.e. Fall varies from +1 to -1 from beginning to end.
• Palette 1: over 50 color palettes to choose from. Determines the color encoding of the positive valence.
• Palette 2: over 50 color palettes to choose from. Determines the color encoding of the negative valence.

Additional features (random values set when token is minted)

• Story length: Very short (12), Short (24), Medium (40), Long (60), Very long (84), Epic (112). Controls the number of pages.
• Pacing cycles: Half, One, Two, Three, Four, Random. Controls the number of cycles for panel density variation (the number of panels on a page).
• Opening pacing: Slow, Moderate, Fast. This determines if the story starts out with a low or high panel density.

Interactivity
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Created in April 2023 by @jamieinfinity (Jamie Williams).